Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	doctrine_n	england_n	6,989	5	6.3346	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41261	Fiat justitia & ruat cœlum, or, Somewhat offer'd in defence of the imperial crown of England and its successor in answer to a speech pretended to be spoken in the honourable House of Commons, upon the reading the bill against the D. / by a true Englishman.	True Englishman.	1679 (1679)	Wing F845; ESTC R35675	8,199	6

Fiat Justitia Ruat Coelum Or Somewhat offer'd in Desence of the Imperial Crown of England And its SUCCESSOR In Answer to a SPEECH pretended to be spoken in the Honourable House of Commons upon Reading the BILL against the D. By a true Englishman IT is not long ago since a mighty Orator Lawyer Logician and what not most strenuously undertook for weighty Considerations to overthrow all Law and Logick and by tacking of inconsequent words as he us'd to do Bills together to shew the World how zealously and boldly he could speak No sence This same Sir Formal Trifle who in his Exordium very gravely tells his Auditory there is a necessity of speaking their minds in a Grand Affair that concerns the King and Kingdom would fain make them believe that he is a going to say somewhat for the King as he expresses it and so to prove himself an extraordinary Loyalist makes a Speech for the King in opposition to the Royal Will He knows very well the King has often declar'd That he would never do any thing that might hinder the Succession to the Crown in the right Line yet still he must try his faculty in Rhetorick and say somewhat for the King Now either this kind Gentleman imagines he can be a greater Friend to the King than the King to himself or else his Wit and Eloquence have spoil'd his Memory in the Law for there he may find the King is no Minor but that he has always years enough to speak for himself But 't is no matter what he means let it be what it will he must needs be a good States-man that utters himself like a Spout for the King and Kingdom especially in a business of such importance as the securing of Religion And indeed this Theologico-Political Orator of ours takes the true way to secure Religion for he will not let any body enjoy so much as his Birth-right if it be possible that such a thing may be dangerous to Religion Now truly here we may take occasion to consider in this weighty Matter what manner of Religion this good Gentleman would secure Is it the Creed of Knipperdolling truly I am not certain he does not mean so Is it the truly modern Institutions of Genevesian John it may be so either for ought I know but that it is not the Protestant Religion of the Church of England I dare boldly and with the highest zeal affirm I cannot tell what he supposes or what the Spirit within him dictates but if his Policy have not o'recome his Religion he must confess that neither the avow'd Doctrine of this Church nor any just and rational Interpretation of Scripture can induce him to think that Religion is to be secur'd by perverting the universal principle of all Nations and acting contrary to the express Word of God But indeed so zealous is this passionate Advocate for his Religion i. e. his Estate for so he afterwards explains himself that to secure his own Right he will not be discouraged by the seeming opposition of any that another has no though his own King's Successor whose Orator he has lately made himself My Lord Chancellor he tells us lately told them that This was the Time and he very wisely thinks that he may make use of this Saying upon all occurrences like Teage in the Committee so he has but a Letter he cares not who it 's written to And then besides that he presumes to be as good a Politician as my Lord how arrogantly the World may judge and to apply those words which his Lordship maturely brought forth to the crude Notions of his own raw Brains he goes on and comments upon what my Lord said and makes his Lordship's Time long enough for deliberation and profound Thoughts to shrink and dwindle into an inconsiderable inconsiderate Moment But truly a Moment is of a duration sufficient to speak all his Reason in and if divisible would lie at least one half upon our hands ready to be imploy'd in any other kind of Jargon And now he has found the Critical Minute of action he as judiciously advises not to let it slip but with a dispatch as quick as Thought immediately resolve upon his Counsel For if you do not you are under a great hazard that your Children may curse you nay be bound to curse you that 's more A strange obligation this upon Children that they should be bound to curse their Forefathers for doing Justice even to an Heathen For surely this Gentleman's Children especially if they are not truly his may easily come to know that Right and Wrong were never restrain'd to this or that sort of men but common and diffus'd to all Mankind No they 'l certainly consider that there 's no reason they should curse their Fathers for not making a Law to dis-inherit an Heir for it will be naturally suggested to them that it might have been their own case Oh! but the great good that follows upon this however unnatural Injury is no less than the securing of Religion So then we may do ill that good may come on 't I protest but that this Gentleman is a Member of the Honourable House I should have taken him for a Jesuit that had onely disguis'd himself under a pretence for Protestant Religion For I appeal to the whole House if this be not a Jesuitical practice to cut off a King or which is worse dethrone him and yet more barbarously let him live meerly because he is an Heretick to their Principles He that relies upon such Maximes makes it utterly impossible ever to establish any much less the Protestant Religion I admire what wonders this worthy Patriot thinks the D. can do when he comes to the Crown can he make Laws or alter the Constitution of the Government without the consent of a Parliament He does not think so I am sure Why then certainly he must believe the whole Nation is inclined to Popery or otherwise he could never imagine a Popish Successor to be so formidable a Gyant as he makes him But let him live where he will in the City or Countrey I don't doubt but he hears arguments enough to perswade any reasonable Creature that 't is a difficulty to bring Popery into England next to that of translating Rome to London Can he think that the King 's being a Papist will be a just reason why the People must be so too when so many and the same Laws continue in force against that kind of men If we for fear of the Tyranny of the See of Rome stealing upon us would take way the Kings Succession what kind of Elective Monarchy would this be that for so many Ages has ran down in a continu'd stream of Inheritable Blood without any interruption At that rate when ever the Speech-makers in the House of Commons could make the rest fear any remote possibility of danger from the King's Successors perswasion be it what it would be the Crown must be straight-way